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Swedish writer’s work was translated into more than 40 languages
This year’s Gothenburg Film Festival celebrated everything from epic sea adventures to back-to-nature art-house
This final instalment to the Kurt Wallander mystery series is more gritty procedural than spy thriller
A mute boy is shipped to Sweden for a pseudo-scientific curiosity tour in this tale by Henning Mankell
Scandinavian societies are envied as models of civic order, so why do their crime fictions - including the TV thriller ‘The Killing’ - depict them as bleak, brutal and anarchic?
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